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RIO DE JANEIRO mdash;Smoke rose Monday from the burned-out hulk of Brazil s National Museum, as recriminations flew over who was responsible for a huge fire that destroyed at least part of Latin America s largest collection of historical artifacts and documents.A few hundred protesters who gathered outside the museum gates tried several times to push into the site, demanding to see the damage and calling on the government to rebuild. Police held the crowd back with pepper spray, tear gas and batons.The museum s director said a portion of the collection was destroyed and that it was impossible to say yet how much. But the deputy director suggested that the damage could be catastrophic, with most objects in the main building probably lost, except for some meteorites.The main building, which was once the home of the Brazilian royal family, housed a collection of 20 million items that included Egyptian and Greco-Roman relics
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and the oldest human skull found in the Western hemisphere, known as Luzia. The National Museum stands gutted after an overnight fire in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 3, 2018.
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Mario Lobao / AP On Monday, the building was still standing, but much of it appeared to have been gutted. Civil defense authorities warned that the structure was not safe to enter because the roof and internal walls had been compromised and cou
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Syrian soldiers loaded equipment and furniture into trucks Monday and drove east from Lebanese mountain positions they have held for decades, the first signs of a redeployment announced earlier in the day by the leaders of the neighboring countries.However, the proposed troop movement was quickly rejected by the United States as insufficient
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.Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Lebanese counterpart, Emile Lahoud, met in Damascus to outline plans for a withdrawal of the Syrian military. While announcing that the troops woul
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d redeploy to the eastern Bekaa Valley closer to the Syrian border by the end of March, they were vague on the timing of a complete withdrawal from Lebanon.The absence of a timeline was unlikely to satisfy the Lebanese opposition and the international community, which have demanded a full withdrawal of Syria s 14,000 troops.In a huge display of anti-Syrian fervor,
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at least 70,000 people ndash; some estimates put the figure at double that number ndash; thronged downtown Beirut, waving Lebanon s distinct cedar-tree flag and thundering, Syria out! Yes, for withdrawal to the Bekaa, but yes first to the full withdrawal behind the Lebanese-Syrian border, opposition lawmaker Walid Eido told the crowd. Freedom! Sovereignty! Independence! the crowd shouted, massing through the streets toward the site of a bomb blast that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Feb. 14, igniting the angry, though peaceful, protests which the anti-Syrian opposition